Vintage Pilots vs Modern Pilots Age Poll

[201er]

@Amelia wants to know how many other pilots on here are old enough to go to Sun N Fun.

 

[MooneyMitch]

Never start a fight on Mooneyspace.................. LOL  !!!!

[EricJ]

Not sure how to answer the second question.    It asks "when", but the possible answers don't seem to align with a time.   Does it mean how long ago?

 

 

Edited March 11, 2021 by EricJ

[amillet]

What’s the cutoff for being a Vintage pilot?  

[201er]

36 minutes ago, EricJ said:

Not sure how to answer the second question.    It asks "when", but the possible answers don't seem to align with a time.   Does it mean how long ago?

 

 

Meant what age

[201er]

31 minutes ago, amillet said:

What’s the cutoff for being a Vintage pilot?  

I’d generally say when the vintage airplane is younger than the vintage pilot.

[Hank]

26 minutes ago, 201er said:

I’d generally say when the vintage airplane is younger than the vintage pilot.

Cool! I was a Vintage Pilot when I first started my lessons, in planes a decade younger than the Mooney I bought later.

Student Pilot, Oct 2006 -- May 2007

Mooney Owner, June 2007 to future 

I hope one day to be vintage enough to qualify for retirement . . . . .

[Comet]

My Mooney is 4 months older than me! 

[David Lloyd]

My Mooney rolled out of the factory the same week I moved to Charlotte to begin a new life.  Manager, business owner, vice president.  Started flight lessons and bought an airplane. Ticket on Friday, first business trip Sunday night.  Instrument rating, then bought a Mooney.  A lot of miles since.

[RLCarter]

My E turned 56 last month, I was 4 when it rolled out the door. I wonder what the average age is for the GA fleet is?

[Hank]

44 minutes ago, RLCarter said:

My E turned 56 last month, I was 4 when it rolled out the door. I wonder what the average age is for the GA fleet is?

My C is now 51, younger than me and my wife.

[gsxrpilot]

My first Mooney was older than me. It taught me well. 

My current and forever Mooney is exactly 20 years younger than I. And that's good as I'm expecting it to outlast my ability to hold a medical.

[N201MKTurbo]

My first Mooney was 10 years younger than me, my second mooney is 20 years younger than me.

I should look in the log and see when it’s birthday is. I should have a party for it.

[MooneyMitch]

My Mooney is 58 years young and looks a lot better than I did at 58 ........

[Seth]

I was born in 1981, My Missile was born in 1983.

My first Mooney, a 1967 M20F I purchased when I was in my 20s.

I now have owned my 1983 Mooney Missile for 25% of it's lifetime, but nearly half it's time as a Missile!!

I have owned and operated an aircraft for exactly 1/3 of my lifetime.

-Seth

Edited March 12, 2021 by Seth

[DonMuncy]

I want to know who that guy in the poll is, that started flying Mooneys past age 100.

[Raptor05121]

My dad was 3 when my plane was made, so safe to say...

[AerostarDriver]

My airplane is nearly double my age but younger then my parents, similar number of new components.  

[carusoam]

I tried to avoid buying things that were older than me...  too much history to have to learn... kind of made an arbitrary starting point...

My first Mooney was a few months older than me... close enough to meet the requirement...

The second Mooney was 29yrs newer than the first... slightly older than my kids...

Learn one Mooney, the others will be very similar... the part numbers are probably different... just very similar in form and function...

PP thoughts only...

Best regards,

-a-

[EricJ]

1 hour ago, DonMuncy said:

I want to know who that guy in the poll is, that started flying Mooneys past age 100.

That was me trying to interpret the question.   It asked "When did you start flying Mooneys?", which implied it's asking for a time or date, but the possible answers didn't make sense for that.   I thought maybe it was asking about how long ago you started flying Mooneys, but that didn't make sense, either.   Poorly worded questions get low quality answers.

[Andy95W]

40 minutes ago, EricJ said:

That was me trying to interpret the question.   It asked "When did you start flying Mooneys?", which implied it's asking for a time or date, but the possible answers didn't make sense for that.   I thought maybe it was asking about how long ago you started flying Mooneys, but that didn't make sense, either.   Poorly worded questions get low quality answers.

So, what you meant is you started flying Mooneys 100+ years ago...

[EricJ]

2 minutes ago, Andy95W said:

So, what you meant is you started flying Mooneys 100+ years ago...

Or it was after 1999, or something.   Then it just turned into a protest vote. 

[Rusty Pilot]

I started flying at 16 in 1981 in a 1978 Cessna 172 and earned my license at 17.  The funny thing is now I fly a 1974 Mooney C and feel like it is not too old with electric gear, yet it is older than the plane I started flying in 40 years ago.  

[steingar]

My airplanes the same age as me, though I think it is showing its age far less than I am.

[amillet]

I am 45 years older than my Mooney. It is approaching 25 but still seems new to me